country-level archive DNS changes

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
What (who?) is the right mechanism to re-point a country-level Ubuntu archive DNS entry, after we have confirmed agreement from the hosting organisation? Many thanks, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubs

Re: country-level archive DNS changes

2013-07-22 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 22 July 2013 16:34, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > What (who?) is the right mechanism to re-point a country-level Ubuntu > archive DNS entry, after we have confirmed agreement from the hosting > organisation? > Information about becoming country mirror is at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors Includ

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
By large, developers are uninterested in this, but it is important for users and where we use Ubuntu. Anyone care to comment on how we can progress this? On 15 July 2013 13:32, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > From earlier feedback, there were no overriding reasons why package > sources should be enabl

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:02:00 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: > By large, developers are uninterested in this, but it is important for > users and where we use Ubuntu. > > Anyone care to comment on how we can progress this? I think most developers would believe the current situation is appropriat

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-22 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:51:46AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think most developers would believe the current situation is appropriate. I disagree. > By default users have the same access to source and binary packages and for a > free software distribution, that is the ethically correct

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
(pardon the top-posting) I think the slight reduction in ethics (relevant mainly to developers) is a good trade to help deployability in the real world. We'll leave sources enabled by default for development releases. For the other 99% of users, where practicality is more important than immediate